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accessary

American  
[ak-ses-uh-ree] / ækˈsɛs ə ri /

noun

  • accessaries
    plural
  1. accessory.


accessary British  
/ əkˈsɛsərɪ /

noun

  1. law a less common spelling of accessory

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Another popular accessary was face jewelry around the nose and cheekbones.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2021

The picture may be true in spite of slips in accessary detail.

From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton

I, and other English, immediately went in all haste to the king, acquainting him with what had happened, lest, if the Dutch had intended any treachery, he might have suspected us as being accessary.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

This well-meaning gentleman has spoilt some excellent shoemakers, and been accessary to the poetical undoing of many of the industrious poor.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

In Pekin, the shew was but an accessary; every one pursued his business, at the same time that he gratified his curiosity.

From Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton by Sir John Barrow

The term battery, when applied to artillery as an arm of service, refers to a permanent organization of a certain number of cannon, with the men and other accessaries required to serve them.

From Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars. by Henry Wager Halleck

Winterborne of course knew in a moment that Grace, whom he had caught the doctor peering at, was represented by these accessaries.

From The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy

A piazza it enjoyed, of course; it must be a pitiful village inn that does not: and building, accessaries and all, rejoiced in several coats of a spurious white lead.

From The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin, Volume 1. Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

Apart from the romantic attraction of the Fall, the broad-eaved chalet and its accessaries form a truly interesting picture of village simplicity and repose.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 403, December 5, 1829 by Various

There is, however, no chance of either being punished, since many influential persons about the Court have shared in the booty, and become accessaries interested in their escape.

From A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II by William Sleeman

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